Figure: Polar Amplification simulated by CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate models for the temperature thresholds of +1.5°C, 2.0°C and 3.0°C global mean warming under RCP8.5 and SSP585 scenarios of northern and southern hemispheres high latitudes. The boxplots indicate the central 50% intermodal range (25% - 75%), the median and upper and lower boundaries in the CMIP models....
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A recent study (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06195-3) led by Dr Luciano Pezzi, member of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel, was published in Climate Dynamics. This work brings a new approach to the study and understanding of the oceanic surface cooling that the oceanic South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ)...
The 27th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) took place on April 1, 4 & 5. Given the situation of the COVID pandemic, and to reduce our carbon footprint, the SSG-27 was held in a completely online format. This year, it focused more on internal WCRP and CLIVAR business, bringing together over 40 scientists from all over the world, including the CLIVAR SSG members, co-...
The CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) held a telecon on 18 March 2022, participated by Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Regina Rodrigues, Paquita Zuidema, Dariia Atamanchuk, Susan Bates, Gregory Foltz, Franck Ghomsi, Laura Jackson, Ingo Richter, Olga Sato, Tannecia Sydia Stephenson from ARP and Jing Li from ICPO...
The International Indian Ocean Science Conference 2022 (IIOSC2022) organized virtually from 14 to 18 March 2022, sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India and co-hosted by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), and National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa University and...
In parallel to the Main London event International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit (4-5 May 2022, London, UK), led by the Digital Twins of the Ocean Programme (DITTO) of the UN Ocean Decade, a call...
The WCRP Seal Level 2022 Conference will be organized from 12 to 16 July 2022, in a fully hybrid format with onsite participation in Singapore. The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status and future of climate-related sea-level research with a strong focus on the application of sea-level science for adaptation and stakeholder needs. Given...
The CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on 'Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s...
The Working Group 3 (Observations) of the CLIVAR Tropical Basins Interactions Research Focus held a teleconference on 9 March in order to plan the activities of the WG.
The topics covered includ:
- Review summary and action items from Feb 2021 workshop (Roxy).
- Overall goals and priorities of WG3 - what we can accomplish, how we can interact with the broader community...
The third meeting of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) in 2022 was organized on 1st March. Main outcomes are as follows:
SORP was preparing the presentation of the CLIVAR SSG-27 and the annual report for CliC. Co-chair of SORP, Torge will represent SORP to attend the SSG meeting, and will feedback to SORP during the next SORP...
Jose Santos, Executive Director of the ICPO, attended the Copernicus Marine Service - Phase #2 - kickoff event, which took place on the 17 and 18 of February, 2022. This event was held in a fully online format, and was organized by Mercator Ocean International. Several members of the CLIVAR community also attended the event.
Following the Copernicus Horizon 2035 Symposium, which was...
A Regional Training Workshop on ‘Observing the Coastal and Marginal Seas in the Western Indian Ocean’ will be organised in a hybrid format on 7th - 9th June, 2022. The workshop is organised by the CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP), with support...
The CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP) organized a regular teleconference on 10 February, 2022, chaired by Steve Jayne and joined by François Counillon, Lijing Cheng, Shuhei Masuda, Louis Clement, Nathalie Zilberman, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Aida Alvera-Azcarate, Uwe Send, and Jose Santos from ICPO.
On the meeting, Lijing Cheng made a presentation on the WCRP proposed...
The second meeting in 2022 of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was organized on 2nd February.
With some of the activities being proceeded in parallel, SORP is now in several task forces and the telecon is mainly to communicate the progress of these task forces. The main outcome during the telecon is as follows:
1. The SORP proposed CLIVAR Exchanges “...
